i, ipod

tuesday was a happy day, a very happy day indeed.

for the past two years i’ve been dreaming of owning an ipod, but they were always out of my league. finally they came out with a cheaper version a couple months ago and i thought that i was getting close to making the purchase. last monday when a friend asked me what i wanted more, a digital camera or an ipod, i couldn’t answer and felt myself get frustrated. i couldn’t answer because it didn’t matter, i wasn’t going to be making a purchase anytime soon. the next day i was at work when i was talking to another friend about his purchase of an ibook. the current deal with apple is that when you purchase an ibook and an ipod you get a very healthy discount on the ipod. said friend was not interested in the ipod, which caught me off-guard. i asked him if he would mind if i purchased the heavily discounted (essentially free) ipod. when he said “sure, go ahead” i almost had a heart attack! never did i think i was going to be owning my very own ipod later that day! hell, just the other day an ipod purchase was still months, if not years away!

so i’m sure you all did the same when you purchased your first ipod, but just in case:

it was so much fun to put the box on my desk and just stare at it in disbelief before opening it. all those cool colors! also, i had to convince myself that it was actually mine, that i wasn’t dreaming. then of course i had to pick up the box it came in and kiss it like every 2 minutes. once in awhile i’d let out an uncontrolled chirp of excitement, then look around to see if anyone saw me.

i waited to get home before opening the package. having never opened anything by apple i was quite impressed with all the design and thought that goes into the packaging, making the whole process of opening it a fun surprise.

a couple hours later i went to visit a friend who was nice enough to get me started on setting it up and let me download a crap fuck of songs (20 gigs).

the best part about owning one? not having to listen to one of the 3 cd’s i’ve had at work for like the past year. now instead of looking through like 40 songs i’d heard a million times i’m looking through 5,000 songs i’ve practically never seen before. guided by voices? i’ve now heard of them. the white stripes? i now know more than 3 songs by them. the hives? well, still never heard them, but i can listen to them if i want to! i am now music literate, or am about to be.

those of you trying to call me lately? i can’t hear you, the pod has been working overtime.

those of you who don’t own one? i was there, i feel for ya.